Jason PhuAt night I sat at the street bbq’s in Chongqing. They brought me cases of beer to drink and then when i couldn’t continue drinking took away what was left and only charged me what I drank. A MIGHTY fine system. Stray street dogs passed me by and in the sky slender white dragons skimmed the clouds, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuI did not like Berlin. They served schnitzel with just a lemon wedge. I wanted some sauce, it was too dry. I did not want to seem rude so I ordered another one. The Berlin Wall is a lot smaller than I thought it was, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuI rode seven horses across the mountains on the Isle of Skye set up my easel and pretended to paint the landscape. I went to a nearby restaurant after and had some haggis it tasted like mums cooking, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuIn Prague there is a church that took 600 years to build there is a toy museum next door that is good. I had a pork knuckle after that was very good. They should have spent 600 years doing something else, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuI went to the Hainan Islands where my Dad’s father and his father and his father are from. I sat on the beach and ate grilled seafood nearby old men gawked at pale bloated beached mermaids, they also took photos. I like the beaches in Australia better but not the people, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuThis is the start. I won some money and then I went travelling. The end, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuIn Mumbai they have this thing, I forgot what it’s called, it is some stuff wrapped in a leaf. It is a digestive, I ate several, and then felt sick. I gave some to a street dog and he turned into a caterpillar. I felt horrible, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuIn March I went to the circus in Hong Kong. The animals were in cages. But then even in the wild they are not safe. Especially if they can paint well, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuI was staying with my uncles in Beijing. We got drunk and ate ENORMOUS feasts of OILY FATTY FRIED animals. Everynight they told me about all the dead people they know all over China. GOD! THEY ARE WELL TRAVELLED, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuI went to an Ozzie pub in Amsterdam they didn’t like that I was breaking the illusion so I sat there and had 10 Guinesses and pulled 9 rabbits out of my butt, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuThe old Turkish baths have old wrinkly men with old wrinkly penises. Upstairs there are young men and young women, their bodies are still taut. I sat in a bath until I was a biscuit on the pavement in the May rains, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason PhuI visited some of the local gods in their mansionshrines in Chiangmai; God of death, God of concrete and steel and the Demi-god of fabric. They were hospitable and made me sit down and made me tea. In Sydney they just tell you to fuck off, 2017Ballpoint Pen, Ink and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Restaurant Docket Book16 x 9.5 cm

Jason Phuwhere do I begin? where do I end (play)?Mixed Media InstallationDimensions Variable

Master of Three Worlds references the storytelling format The Hero’s Journey, also known as the ‘Master of Two Worlds’, in which a protagonist is exposed to unexpected hardship and trial and returns to their initial setting having completed a transformative journey, now a master of both the domestic and initially unfamiliar worlds.

The ‘Three Worlds’ in this case relate to artists coming to terms with their initial physical location after development of relationships with new countries and cultures, wrestling with conceptualising work following the influence this may have, and the way in which practice expands and changes over time.